Hah, yeah, no problem on looking out for your safety.
And yeah, I did the American thing of assuming whoever I am talking to is also American by default, unless otherwise indicated…
But yeah, it sounds like you understand my genuine safety concern as an overriding default, at this point in time.
I am not gonna tell you what to and to not post.
That would be unimaginably ironic.
I’m not even a mod … or anything like that.
I am gonna say that I really hope your online profile cannot be easily tied back to your actual identity… by either random people with a vendetta… and/or possibly any information within the purview of being obtained by some kind of warrant (or DOGE style break-in) from the US government, or maybe by being leaked from some kind of right wing person that works for an ISP. Or VPN!
Things are looking awfully dicey right now.
The entire problem with a bunch of very, very angry and distraught people, is that they tend to believe whatever the fuck they want to, to justify and amplify their anger.
After all, in a highly emotional state, one’s feelings do not really rationally consider or evaluate any kind of facts.
And, I guess you could say that I am deadly serious about that.
EDIT:
in case you are unaware
https://www.charliesmurderers.com/
this exists.
So… yeah.
Looks to me they are building a sort of Purge / ‘day of the rope’ type hitlist.
I have been over in another thread trying to figure this out.
What was originally claimed was ‘an older 30.06 Mauser’, but that seems unlikely, primarily because almost no Mausers, K98k’s, are chambered in 30.06, they’re almost all in 7.92x57mm, which is not a 30.06, that’d be 7.62x63mm in metric.
Also… yeah, it does seem like an actual 30.06, at that range of approximately 150 to 200 yards/meters… would have made a lot bigger of a hole, entry and exit wound… more like just a good chunk of his whole neck blasted off/apart, than the hole that we saw.
Uh, finally… this is the image from the New York Post going around that apparently is the weapon.
This (in my semi informed, and based off a low quality image, opinion) is not an older Mauser.
It is probably a Remington 700, or Ruger American, probably from roughly the 90s or 00’s, probably in .270 or .243 or something like that.
Basically, this looks like a roughly 20 to 30 yo, extremely common, bolt action deer hunting rifle in the US.
Let me try to figure out how to link to my own comment in another thread.
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/21325405
It is looking to me like uh, what a surprise, initial reports are sloppy, vague and innacurate, great job Kash Patel on not having an actual suspect within 24 hrs, I guess tweeting that you’ve apprehended the suspect (who was actually the wrong guy) was more important.
Oh god this is all so very, very stupid.
This is not even a frame up job at this point, this is pure fucking chaos, everyone, including the head of the FBI, seem to be more or less just be making shit up and running with whatever their gut instinct is, or first thing they heard from some guy.
This is like… how you write the snivelling, untrustworthy, back stabbing, people pleaser, duplicitous ‘local guide’ archetype/trope character in a movie, with zero subtlety.
Just 110% opportunist.
Fucking wild, man.
Yeah at this point … this is probably not a good idea.
Further: That’s a casing from a pistol round, probably 9mm, not a necked casing from a hunting rifle.
Apparently, the entire ‘trans ideology on the casings’ thing … came from our favorite divorced domestic abuser Steven Crowder, who claims that basically just someone in the ATF just sent either their own opinion or a prelim. analysis to him.
Then, as best I can tell… the WSJ just ran with that, and then everyone else did.
Then the NYT appears to have actually attempted to do journalism, reached out to the ATF for comment/verification, and they basically said ‘wtf no, that document is preliminary at best and should not be seen as accurate’… which to me implies they couldn’t even be 100% certain as to what specific document Crowder / WSJ was even referring to.
So… hooray journalism I guess, basically everything is a wildly irresponsible gossip rag right now.
EDIT:
Your modern rifle rounds are generally gonna be necked like the .223/5.56, generally taller, generally larger bullets.
bullet = part that hits thing you are aiming at, ideally.
casing = part that holds gunpowder, has primer, gets hit by firing pin, must be cleared from the chamber before next shot.
cartridge/round = the whole package, all together.
There are still some non necked, straight cased rounds like the 30 30, still somewhat common in lever action (“cowboy repeater”) type rifles/carbines.
There are also some smaller rounds that are necked, basically tiny, scaled down rifle style rounds, that are geared toward varmint hunting, or a personal defense context, via moving a smaller and lighter bullet faster, with relatively more gunpowder behind it… used variously in more niche pistols, rifles, pdws, carbines.
5.7 x 28mm (the 5-7 / P90), 4.6 x 30mm (the MP7), .17 HMR (decent array of varmint rifles), etc.
No.
… But sometimes Mambo Number 5 starts creeping in.
The dangers of letting HR
attend conventions…exist, ever attempt critical thinking, be trusted in any capacity with any task…
Your problem is that you were not listening to ‘Welcome to The Machine’ by Pink Floyd whilst in the MRI.
Just, uh, start the track the instant you put the headphones on and get on the bed, I swear the timing lines up perfectly.
I mean, frankly, I agree with you … but there are tons of other games in other genres of style and gameplay…that are also under $70 bucks, at or close to that $20 mark, that are pretty damn good.
They may not be as meteorically popular as Silksong…
But the point of the OP image is that… you do not in fact need a AAA production budget and AAA ‘graphics quality’ and MTX and FOMO and alo that garbage… to be able to have a successful game.
That you can in fact have a more modest yet also more focused approach, and create a break-out hit.
The point here is not ‘Silksong popular!’
The point is ‘Silksong proves that AAA development paradigms and business practices are ludicrously wasteful and not mandatory; there will always be other ways to be a successful game creator.’
I genuienly do not care and am not worried about my tendency to overshare.
If you can’t handle me at my oversharing, you don’t deserve to be my autistic hyperfixation.
Well then, better learn how to become Silent, But Deadly.
Only if your enjoyment of a thing is substantially rooted in the degree to which others enjoy a thing.
Or I guess also if you do not find analysis of why a thing is or is not enjoyable or funny (generally, or specifically to yourself) to be enjoyable itself.
Hrm… not by my calendar…
…oh no.
=P
If you want share feelings with a human, find a human to share feelings with.
Go to a strip club, hire an escort, get a ‘massage’… these things can be done.
Or, you know, actually try to have a real relationship with an actual human.
If you want a fuck toy, get a fuck toy.
If you want a fuck toy that reacts in a manner emulating it having actual sensations… this does not require AI, it only takes a bit of clever coding, a bit of extra sensors in the toy itself, and a decent voice actress and a decent writer.
AI is massive overkill from a technical standpoint.
And a fuckbot doesn’t have feelings.
It only emulates them.
A fuckbot with a complex LLM system that emulates having feelings literally just is masturbation with an enormous amount of extra steps… you can again achieve ~95% of the same fidelity of experience with a more clever technical approach that is something like 10,000x more efficient in terms of required compute power.
… It is also a security nightmare, unless the LLM on board this sexbot is running entirely locally, where we again run into the problem of this being economically infeasible for mass production… you need a fairly beefy computer to run a local LLM, so thats gonna be the bare minimum cost floor for any sextoy/bot that isn’t livestreaming all your masturbation sessions to the corporate cloud.
Eh, to each their own, I’m not gonna tell you what you can and can’t find funny, but I appreciate matching verb tenses in my puns and jokes…
…unless of course the joke/pun revolves around pointing out a quirk of what happens when you try to do that in some odd context, where the point is the unexpected incongruity, as opposed to this case, where it is incidental.
To me this just reads as a flubbed delivery.
(pretend I know how to put an ascii shrug here)
Wait, Twin Peaks Season 3 is older than the Walking Dead?
That doesn’t grammatically work though.
Wrong verb tense on ‘costs’.
Better opening line:
Do you know what the cost of a chimney is?
A chimney’s cost is ‘through the roof’.
A chimney does not cost ‘through the roof’.
Or… the koalification joke is extremely common to the point of being uninteresting and not even worth acknowledging.
You have to be more clever to impress a more clever person.
As illustrated by themeatbridge in their comment where they come up with the more novel play on ‘ursine’.
Whats going on here is probably that this guy tried to hit on a smart girl and she was not impressed by his 6th grader level rizz, and he is now angry that his facile joke wasn’t even acknowledged.
Spasibo, i pust nam vsem povezet perezhit boleye schastlivye vremena.
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